A protocol and memory manager for on-chip communication

We define a protocol for on-chip communication that supports dynamic interconnect networks with global memory management based on the notion of distributed shared memory with a uniform address space. The protocol is implemented by a memory manager. It is beneficial to separate the steady-state processing (data communication with static interconnect) from changing from one steady state (or user function) to another, which may necessitate reallocation of resources or changes in the network topology